Eventually examine, the College of Arizona males’s basketball workforce had climbed to No. 5 within the nationwide rankings, whereas the ladies’s workforce had performed its option to No. 18.
Within the astronomy division, they name that “good however not nice.”
The UA continued its decadeslong streak because the nation’s No. 1 college for astronomy and astrophysics analysis, in accordance with information compiled by the Nationwide Science Basis.
The college topped the record with greater than $113 million in analysis exercise in the course of the 2021 fiscal yr, some $40 million greater than the second-place College of California, Berkeley.
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Arizona has ranked No. 1 in astronomy and astrophysics expenditures yearly since 1987.
Individuals are additionally studying…
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In general science analysis exercise throughout all departments, the college got here in thirty sixth nationally — and twentieth amongst public establishments — within the NSF’s Larger Schooling Analysis and Growth survey.
The annual survey of 900 faculties and universities within the U.S. is taken into account the first supply of knowledge on analysis and growth expenditures in larger training.
The UA reported about $770 million in R&D exercise in 2021, $9 million greater than the earlier fiscal yr. That locations the UA within the high 4% of all U.S. universities ranked on the NSF’s record.
“The College of Arizona is among the world’s premier educational analysis establishments, evidenced by our regular improve in analysis and growth expenditures,” mentioned UA President Robert C. Robbins in a written assertion. “From exploring the deepest corners of our galaxy to our management in vitally necessary efforts surrounding hypersonic know-how and the quantum web, College of Arizona researchers are on the forefront of the world’s most fun scientific discoveries.”
Along with its high rating in astronomy and astrophysics, the UA ranked No. 5 within the nation for NASA-funded work and No. 6 for analysis within the bodily sciences.
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Its general R&D exercise in 2021 was the fourth most amongst so-called high-Hispanic-enrollment colleges, specifically faculties and universities with a minimum of 25% Hispanic enrollment.
The college additionally earned top-50 rankings in organic and biomedical sciences (No. 21); geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences (27); agricultural sciences, pure sources and conservation (29); science and engineering fields (35); life sciences (39); chemistry (42) and laptop and data sciences (45).
The UA additionally cracked the highest 50 nationally in U.S. Division of Agricultural funding (29), Nationwide Science Basis funding (35) and Division of Well being and Human Companies funding (50).
From the Pink Planet’s opposition to a pair of dazzling meteor showers, listed below are the highest astronomy occasions to mark down in your December calendar.
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Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean
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NOTE: This is a compilation of stats involving players from Southern Arizona and the Arizona Wildcats’ program in MLB-sanctioned leagues (MLB and minor leagues). The list does not include players in foreign leagues or independent leagues in the US.
LOCAL BASEBALL PLAYERS IN THE PROS
Listing of local baseball players either from high school or Arizona currently playing in pro baseball. *Barraza, Sahuarita graduate *Romero, CDO graduate *Salazar, Sahuaro graduate
Player
Pos
Sch
Yrs
Team
Lvl
Org
Nate Baez
1B
IRHS
16-19
Cedar Rapids
A+
MIN
Christopher Barraza
P
UA*
21-23
Inland Empire
A
LAA
Branden Boissiere
1B
UA
19-21
Wilmington
A+
WAS
Tony Bullard
3B
UA
20-23
Beloit
A+
MIA
Alex Bustamante
P
CDO
16-18
Tampa
A
NYY
Demetrio Crisantes
SS
Nogales
19-22
ACL Dbacks
RK
ARI
Bobby Dalbec
1B
UA
14-16
Boston
MLB
BOS
Chase Davis
OF
UA
21-23
Palm Beach
A
STL
Jose Dicochea
P
Sahuarita
16-19
Stockton
A
OAK
Matthew Dyer
C
UA
19-20
Montgomery
AA
TB
German Fajardo
P
Nogales
16-19
Modesto
A
SEA
Michael Flynn
P
UA
16-18
Oklahoma City
AAA
LAD
Matt Fraizer
OF
UA
17-19
Indianapolis
AAA
PIT
Kevin Ginkel
P
UA
16
Arizona
MLB
ARI
Nick Gonzales
INF
Cienega
14-17
Pittsburgh
MLB
PIT
Darick Hall
1B
Buena
11-13
Lehigh Valley
AAA
PHI
Garrett Irvin
P
UA
20-22
Lansing
A+
OAK
Scott Kingery
2B
UA
13-15
Lehigh Valley
AAA
PHI
Randy Labaut
P
UA
17-19
Columbus
AAA
CLE
Gil Luna
P
UA
18-21
Birmingham
AA
CHW
Nik McClaughry
2B
UA
20-23
Fort Wayne
A+
SD
Tylor Megill
P
UA
17-19
NY Mets
MLB
NYM
Ian Mejia
P
Sahuarita
16-19
Mississippi
AA
ATL
Andrew Nardi
P
UA
19
Miami
MLB
MIA
Kevin Newman
SS
UA
13-15
Arizona
MLB
ARI
Jared Oliva
OF
UA
15-17
Arkansas
AA
SEA
Tanner O’Tremba
OF
UA
21-22
Eugene
A+
SF
Spencer Packard
OF
CDO
13-16
Tacoma
AAA
SEA
Rob Refsnyder
OF
UA
10-12
Boston
MLB
BOS
Alfonso Rivas
1B
UA
16-18
Memphis
AAA
STL
Kiko Romero
1B
UA*
23
Hudson Valley
A+
NYY
Milo Rushford
CF
WGHS
18-21
ACL Royals
RK
KC
Cesar Salazar
C
UA*
16-18
Houston
MLB
HOU
Chase Silseth
P
UA
21
Salt Lake
AAA
LAA
Austin Smith
P
UA
21
Mississippi
AA
ATL
Daniel Susac
C
UA
21-22
Midland
AA
OAK
Cal Stevenson
OF
UA
17-18
Lehigh Valley
AAA
PHI
Alex Verdugo
OF
Sahuaro
11-14
NY Yankees
MLB
NYY
Avery Weems
P
UA
18-19
Frisco
AA
TEX
Austin Wells
C
UA
19-20
NY Yankees
MLB
NYY
Donta’ Williams
OF
UA
18-21
Norfolk
AAA
BAL
LOCAL BATTERS IN THE PROS
Through games of June 16 *Injuries: Boissiere (60-day/arm)
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Player
Team
Lvl
G
AB
R
H
2B
3B
HR
RBI
SB
AVG
Baez
MIN
A+
33
101
19
27
2
1
7
19
0
.252
*Boissiere
WAS
A+
33
112
11
24
4
0
2
15
0
.214
Bullard
MIA
A+
8
25
3
5
2
0
0
2
1
.200
Crisantes
ARI
RK
29
121
31
43
7
5
1
20
10
.355
Dalbec
BOS
MLB
33
76
6
10
2
0
1
7
3
.132
Davis
STL
A
49
175
22
37
14
0
5
30
3
.211
Dyer
TB
AA
35
106
16
23
5
2
1
8
3
.217
Fraizer
PIT
AAA
22
75
8
17
3
1
1
8
0
.231
Gonzales
PIT
MLB
32
122
17
38
7
1
5
25
2
.311
Hall
PHI
AAA
48
189
19
47
5
0
5
26
0
.249
Kingery
PHI
AAA
58
205
34
50
8
1
13
31
9
.244
McClaughry
SD
A+
46
140
17
24
6
2
0
8
4
.171
Newman
ARI
MLB
52
159
23
45
10
1
2
16
3
.283
O’Tremba
SF
A+
38
126
25
28
7
1
2
16
9
.222
Oliva
SEA
AA
42
113
23
24
3
0
5
15
18
.212
Packard
SEA
AAA
6
25
6
10
4
0
0
2
0
.400
Refsnyder
BOS
MLB
42
129
16
42
11
1
2
16
1
.326
Rivas
STL
AAA
50
172
27
43
11
2
1
20
0
.250
Romero
NYY
A+
34
102
15
23
6
0
4
14
4
.225
Rushford
KC
RK
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Salazar
HOU
MLB
1
2
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
.500
Sands
SF
AAA
13
51
5
9
1
0
0
5
0
.176
Stevenson
PHI
AAA
58
169
28
43
10
3
3
21
15
.254
Susac
OAK
AA
41
162
14
43
7
0
3
16
3
.259
Verdugo
NYY
MLB
71
265
35
69
15
1
9
41
1
.260
Wells
NYY
MLB
41
120
14
25
7
0
2
10
1
.200
Williams
BAL
AAA
4
13
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
.154
SUNDAY’S HOME RUNS
Nate Baez is a Class of 2019 graduate at Ironwood Ridge who went on to play at Arizona State
1B Nate Baez (Ironwood Ridge), Twins A+, 2 HRs (2-run HR and solo HR) (7th overall, 3rd in three days and 4th in last six games)
SUNDAY’S STANDOUTS
Spencer Packard’s FIFTH hit of the game is this RBI double to make it 12-3 in the ninth pic.twitter.com/Zfls9JLz9b
Tuesday, June 11 Spencer Packard – Assigned to Tacoma Rainiers (AAA) (Seattle Mariners)
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Someone’s PACKING up and moving to Tacoma!
Spencer Packard gets his call up to Triple-A! Through 50 games with Arkansas this year, Pack raked with a .285 AVG, having collected 5 2B, 5 HR, and 29 RBIs. pic.twitter.com/pWQ9eAdd3t
Sunday, June 9 Donny Sands – Released by Giants. The 28-year-old Salpointe graduate signed a minor-league deal with the club in mid-May after the Tigers released him at the end of spring training. The Yankees selected Sands in the eighth round of the 2015 draft, and he spent the next seven seasons in their system before the Yankees traded him to the Phillies ahead of the 2022 campaign. Sands made his MLB debut with Philadelphia the following September. He appeared in three games as a pinch-hitter and caught two innings behind the plate that season, the extent of his big-league career. The Phillies traded him to the Tigers during the 2022-23 offseason. Sands’ background of being a homeless teen while at Salpointe made national news. This occurred after his father died of a heart attack and his mom Alma had to move to her native Mexico to find employment.
Donny Sands batted .450 as a senior at Salpointe in 2015
Thursday, June 6 Branden Boissiere – IL-60 Injured/arm (Washington Nationals)
Tuesday, June 4 Matthew Dyer – Assigned to Montgomery Biscuits (AA) (Tampa Bay Rays) Milo Rushford – Assigned to ACL Royals (Rk) (Kansas City Royals) Donta’ Williams – Assigned to Norfolk Tides (AAA) (Baltimore Orioles)
ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon. He became an educator five years ago and is presently a special education teacher at Sunnyside High School in the Sunnyside Unified School District.
PHOENIX — Drew Thorpe wasn’t nearly as sharp in the second start of his big-league career.
The right-hander allowed seven earned runs — three in the first inning — for the Chicago White Sox in Sunday’s 12-5 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in front of 37,694 at Chase Field.
Thorpe walked five and didn’t record a strikeout in 3 1/3 innings.
“Just kind of didn’t have my best stuff,” Thorpe said. “I didn’t have my best command, obviously. It’s pretty hard to work around it when you don’t have it with the stuff I have.
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“I beat myself, right. Five walks, that’s not how I am. The only thing you can do is flush it and get to the next one and that’s what I’m going to do.”
Thorpe allowed one earned run on three hits with four strikeouts and two walks in his major-league debut Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park.
The Diamondbacks got to him early. Joc Pederson drove in two with a double — he was out trying to make it to third. Christian Walker followed with a solo home run, making it 3-0 in the first.
Thorpe got knocked out of the game during a six-run fourth inning for the Diamondbacks.
“He’s got to be able to pitch and command the strike zone,” manager Pedro Grifol said. “That’s going to be his bread and butter. That’s going to be how he performs at this level. If that’s a little off, then he’s going to have to make some adjustments and if it’s way off like today, he’ll struggle a little bit.
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“He’s a good competitor so you can’t overthink this one.”
The Sox lost two of three in the series and went 2-5 on the trip. Here are three more takeaways from the weekend.
1. Explaining Saturday’s intentional balk that aided the Sox.
Chicago White Sox catcher Martín Maldonado in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday, June 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Sox catcher Martín Maldonado has a connection with Diamondbacks pitching coach Brent Strom from their time together with the Houston Astros.
“I’ve been in this game for a long time, their pitching coach knows me really good,” Maldonado said Saturday.
That might have been a factor in a unique sequence during Saturday’s third inning. Maldonado doubled and moved to third when Thyago Vieira intentionally dropped the ball for a balk.
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“Maldonado is very crafty,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo told Arizona reporters, including MLB.com, after the game. “And he was given signs. He was (perfect). He didn’t miss one. And so I just went out there and said, ‘Let’s force a balk.’”
Andrew Vaughn followed with an RBI single, the first run for the Sox in an eventual 9-2 victory. Regardless of the outcome, Grifol thought it was a good move by Lovullo.
“It helped Martín scoring from third instead of scoring from second,” Grifol said before Sunday’s game. “There might have been a play at home, but you know what? I applaud what (Lovullo) did. He identified it.
“There’s multiple ways of fixing it instead of having the pitcher do something uncomfortable in the moment. Balk him over to third and get the next guy out. And I applaud him for it.”
2. Lenyn Sosa benefiting from ‘the freedom to play free.’
Chicago White Sox’ Lenyn Sosa hits a single against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning on Sunday, June 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Lenyn Sosa singled in the sixth inning Saturday. He hit a three-run home run the next inning. And he doubled in the ninth.
The third baseman went 3-for-5 with one of the team’s four home runs in the game. He’s 18-for-50 with two home runs and seven RBIs in 14 games since being recalled from Triple-A Charlotte on May 31. He went 2-for-4 Sunday.
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Sosa said through an interpreter after Saturday’s game that the confidence from the coaches has given him “the freedom to play free, the way I was playing in the minors.”
“I would rather play to have fun, to enjoy the game, and of course to help to do whatever it takes to have the team win,” Sosa said. “I’ve been enjoying the game playing with no pressure.”
Grifol said Sunday that mindset is “the only way he’s going to have success.”
“He’s not going to have success playing like he was before, just playing tight and not wanting to make mistakes and worried about making mistakes,” Grifol said. “Part of development is allowing players to do their thing and another big part of development is the players accepting instruction and constructive criticism, knowing that it’s coming from a good place. Coming from a place getting them better as an individual and getting us better as a team, as an organization.
“The No. 1 thing is to go out and play free. Don’t worry about making mistakes, and if you do make them, open your mind and let’s talk about it and get better for the next day. That’s development.”
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3. Sox designate OF Duke Ellis for assignment and add C Chuckie Robinson to the 40-man roster.
Chicago White Sox center fielder Duke Ellis stands in the dugout before the start of a game against the Boston Red Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on June 6, 2024. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Before Sunday’s game, the Sox designated outfielder Duke Ellis for assignment and selected the contract of catcher Chuckie Robinson from Charlotte to add him to the 40-man roster, then optioned him to Charlotte.
“(Robinson) had an out (in his contract), and he’s got a lot of value to the organization,” Grifol said of the move.
Robinson originally signed as a minor-league free agent during the offseason. He’s hitting .234 with six home runs and 25 RBIs in 41 games with the Knights.
“He’s a guy we really liked in the spring,” Grifol said. “He’s got a lot of energy. We didn’t want to lose him.”
Ellis, who was optioned to Charlotte on Wednesday, went 0-for-4 with a run and four stolen bases in eight games with the Sox this season.
“I really like Duke, we’ll see how that plays out,” Grifol said. “Two premium things — one is a premium position guy (in Robinson), and the other is premium speed (in Ellis). Sometimes you’ve got to make a tough decision, and that was it.”